The Blade Journal

Comments are back up, and are able to be read. I have enjoyed reading all the past ones from the last few months.

So many important matters-of-state to divulge from last two weeks, melded together with social meanderings, fun times, zany trips, and calm reflection. Whirlwind. But will have to describe them when have proper time-slot to do so, which will be very soon. Only one thing to note before then: I bought the new “G4 and Friends” […]

Had a free dinner for Members of The Foundation of John The Evangelist, last night, given to all ’scholars’.
The menu was as follows:
Riesling Riquewihr, Domaine Bott-Geyl, 2001
Bouillabaisse Terrine
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Chablis 1er Cru Vaillons, Domaine Billaud-Simon, 2002
Oven roasted turbot
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Chateau Thieuley Reserve Courselle, Bourdeaux Superieur, 1999
Braised pheasant with spices, green beens, vegetables, potato croquettes.
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Liquorice Pannacotta with burned oranges
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Grahams Port, […]

The following call for historical papers to be published reached me today. I don’t think I have much expertise in the particular academic field they are asking submissions for:
…”Papers are invited that relate to the subject of ‘The Liquid Beast: Drinking the Animal Body.’ This collection of papers is intended to complement ‘The Slaughterhouse and […]

Before I update on my post-Marathon exploits in John’s - political manoeuvrings, savage liberal media attacks on my honour, academic hegemony while supervising undergraduate lemmings, Anglo-American terror analyses, male modelling, new music, Granchester cross country running and the like- I must prefix this all with a word on my recent foodways in John’s, which have […]